What is a Young Adult Carer?
A Young Adult Carer is someone between the ages of 16 and 25 who looks after a family member. Caring for someone might involve things such as cooking, cleaning and other household tasks to taking responsibility for financial issues or supporting with medical issues. You may need to undertake personal care tasks or other things that your loved one can’t do for themselves. You may have to offer emotional as well as practical support. A Young Adult Carer might look after someone because they’re unwell, have a disability, a mental health issue or struggle with substance misuse.
How can we help?
If you are under 18 you can access support via the Young Carers team.
If you are 18 or over then support will be provided through both the NEWCIS service and Young Adult Carers service.
YAC Support
There are some changes to how we run things with the YAC (Young Adult Carer) group… Starting this New Year, we will be inviting all Young Carers, aged 17 and over, to join our new YAC+ consultation group. Which will be a monthly drop in session to help us sculpt and inform the future support for you post 18 as a Carer. This group will be aged 17 to 25, so if you are under 17 and do not already attend the secondary group, you can still join in there. Look out for ‘YAC+ Consultation Group’ updates in latest newsletter!
Referring into the service
There are 2 different routes to refer into the service depending on your / the Young Adult Carers age.
Under 18
Referrals will need to be made using the online Young Carers referral form.
These will be dealt with by the Young Carers team directly. Once allocated one of the team will contact you.
Over 18
Referrals will need to be made using the NEWCIS online referral form.
This is because the adult team at NEWCIS will deal with the referral, undertake any assessments needed and provide support. You can find out more about NEWCIS services here.
Once you have been allocated to a worker to complete an assessment please ask them to forward your details to the Young Carer team, if you would like to access the group, so that we can add you to our contact list.
Moving from Young Carers to Adult Carers
Up to the age of 18 your support will come from the Young Carers team however once you reach 18 this will changeover to the adult team. We aim to make this transition as smooth as possible for you and one of the team will talk you through the process and changes that happen. You can still access the YAC group it is just a change in how and where your day to day support comes from.
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